Nah, I use Mozilla (1.4a)... spam on the other hand is a pain in the ass. Bastards dictionary attack my domain name... I'd pay good money for one of their heads on a stake.
You are an idiot. Children should be exposed to stuff early on so once they reach adult hood its not a whole big deal. The guy obviously isn't showing his son goatsx but in this age of popups and spam of course he is going to run into it. Its better that he understand what it is then ending up a prude fuck like yourself.
And whats the difference with "root access" to a Win 98 machine? If the kid breaks something, he or she will learn what not to do next time. Fix the problem and get over it. Computers are tools and toys. How many of us made mistakes and accidently trashed a machine? All of us, its how we friggin learn.
The guy is talking about parental control... which is content control and you turn it into how to manage user accounts.
Not all operating systems provide the same journaling technology. Windows NT offers a less robust version of the full system. If your Windows NT system crashes, you may not lose the entire disk volume, but you will likely lose all the data that hadn't yet been written to the disk prior to the crash.
Provided by another poster off of some website with such information I'd imagine.
Linus doesn't go around telling people what they should use and don't (unless its about kernel debuggers). Linus is an engineer and Richard is a politician. Theres a big difference there. From what I've read, Linus uses Red Hat. Even if he just uses the console in fullscreen mode, it doesn't make a difference. The point is that if RMS is going to go on about whats good and whats bad, he should at least have an idea what hes talking about. Don't get me wrong, I believe in GNU. I just don't believe in how RMS treats the Linux kernel, as if its just some filler until the Hurd kernel is done. RMS needs to embrace the current OS movement, not just what was done 10 years ago. This includes Mozilla (MPL), X Windows (X11 License) and all the other Open Source bits and pieces that aren't GPL'd.
If you use Mozilla don't forget the Mozilla Public License,;). Its rediculous to call a modern Linux system GNU because while 90% of the software is GNU, the most useful (X, Mozilla, etc) is probably something else.
It seemed almost like something out of Bill & Ted's excellent adventure:). Like bringing somebody of renowned ability from the past to the present and showing him what stuffs like. I'm not sure if it was just the way the article was written but it almost seemed like RMS had never used KDE before. When asked how much he used X, he responded "sometimes". Thats crazy. I understand that you use what you know, but this is a guy who is using emacs as his windowing system. Kind of changes my opinion of him as an all knowing guru.
Note: I'm not dissing his abilities or role in history. He has done shit that most of us could never come close to surpassing. Its just amazing to see how little things have changed for him in the last 10 years.
Based on what? If the college students held up a bank, hacked the RIAA servers, or stole from a local artist, they'd still be liable for damages.
Liable for damages yes. Unfair punishment, no. Suing somebody for $90 billion is incredibly stupid, no matter what kind of demented logic you use.
Ever been sued / looked at the inital claim in a lawsuit? Any plausible method of counting or claiming gets used to be in the claimant's best interest.
This is unethical and borderlines fraud.
Which makes them somehow unable to defend their interest now? Just because someone's a child molester doesn't deprive them of their freedom of speech. (Freedom of anonymnity, sure, but not speech.)
They can say what they want but they are not above the law. If they were fair to their customers this never would have happened. Just as you said, the iPod model will probably kill off P2P which is a good thing. If the RIAA had done this earlier or properly priced cds then this blackmarket would never have shown up in the first place.
... talks about new anti-piracy efforts from the music industry, some of questionable legality.
Come on, what else do you expect from these people? They have stated that they think its alright to break into computers that contain Mp3s (fair use be damned). They have sued college students for $90 billion and settled for $17 thousand which is still way too much. They count 50 cd burners at faster speeds to be 420 burners for statistic purposes. They have been proven guilty of illegal cd price fixing and screwing the consumer.
All in all, anything they do doesn't really surprise me anymore. I think the only actual thing that would shock me would be something like:
"The New York Times is reporting that the RIAA is giving away $5000 worth of free cds to every person in this country who ever purchased a cd. They also are responsible for puppies, ice cream and rainbows."
The guy asked if you created a webpage with open source tools, would it be open source. In which I responded No They are both examples of why it is stupid to automatically license the source of the program based on the license of the program. You may need to take some pain killers for that knee. How about next time you read the comment, count to 10, read it again, and then think about posting.
If you use the GNU tools to create a program, does that automatically make the program created GPL? Or for those who hate MS, if you used Visual Studio.Net does that automatically make your program property of Microsoft?
No. This would be a Really Bad Thing (tm) in my mind.
Don't have one, don't want one. I love my Nomad MuVo. Now I'm not saying that if they were giving them away free I wouldn't take one, but I'm sure as hell not going to pay for it.
Didn't you get the memo? Well since you seem upset by this, I'll give you some tips for starting your own:
Create fancy webpage with fancy drawings on napkins. It also helps to put some mathematical formulas on them.
Come up with a cool name. The cooler the name the better, I can't emphasize this enough.
Go to Walmart and buy some tupper-ware, garden hoses (roughly 200 feet), and gas containers.
Build something resembling a space vehicle out of said parts.
Make sure to say on your website: "Our designs take into affect safety in a cost effective way. We have privately tested our craft and it is technologically sound. However, We regret that without more funding we will no longer be able to provide a convenient, easy and safe way to put people into space on their terms."
Provide a donation and VC link on the bottom.
Now sit back and watch the funding come in. You too can have a space program for only a $100 investment.
Hes doing it on purpose to get a rise out of you all. No matter how stupid Slashdotters in general think Taco is, hes not stupid enough to post the same story twice. Yeah he does dupes but come on... do you really think he'd post the same story twice unless it was on purpose?
The best part of this is that Taco is trolling the crap out of all of you and hes probably sitting at work reading the comments and laughing his ass off.
Now a real April fools joke would be Katz posting a story that didn't have the phrase "... in these post 9/11 times...";).
I remember when Slackware jumped from I think 3 to 8 or something similar (I don't use Slackware so I'm not sure) and claimed it was just to shut people up who were wondering if Slackware was "Linux 7.0" compatible. I wonder if this is what Red Hat is doing because Mandrake is coming out with 9.1 soon. I'd really like to know if the benefits in 9 will be great enough to justify this jump. It will probably have a 2.4.20 something kernel, maybe KDE 3.1 (even though Red Hat isn't a big fan of KDE) and some other stuff. Seems to me that it should probably be 8.1. Didn't 8 just come out 4-6 months ago?
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Maybe just like my socks, that 90% of the universe disappeared in the dryer?
I thought Iraq kept their WMD in heaven?
Nah, I use Mozilla (1.4a)... spam on the other hand is a pain in the ass. Bastards dictionary attack my domain name... I'd pay good money for one of their heads on a stake.
You are an idiot. Children should be exposed to stuff early on so once they reach adult hood its not a whole big deal. The guy obviously isn't showing his son goatsx but in this age of popups and spam of course he is going to run into it. Its better that he understand what it is then ending up a prude fuck like yourself.
And whats the difference with "root access" to a Win 98 machine? If the kid breaks something, he or she will learn what not to do next time. Fix the problem and get over it. Computers are tools and toys. How many of us made mistakes and accidently trashed a machine? All of us, its how we friggin learn.
The guy is talking about parental control... which is content control and you turn it into how to manage user accounts.
Not all operating systems provide the same journaling technology. Windows NT offers a less robust version of the full system. If your Windows NT system crashes, you may not lose the entire disk volume, but you will likely lose all the data that hadn't yet been written to the disk prior to the crash.
Provided by another poster off of some website with such information I'd imagine.
Linus doesn't go around telling people what they should use and don't (unless its about kernel debuggers). Linus is an engineer and Richard is a politician. Theres a big difference there. From what I've read, Linus uses Red Hat. Even if he just uses the console in fullscreen mode, it doesn't make a difference. The point is that if RMS is going to go on about whats good and whats bad, he should at least have an idea what hes talking about.
Don't get me wrong, I believe in GNU. I just don't believe in how RMS treats the Linux kernel, as if its just some filler until the Hurd kernel is done. RMS needs to embrace the current OS movement, not just what was done 10 years ago. This includes Mozilla (MPL), X Windows (X11 License) and all the other Open Source bits and pieces that aren't GPL'd.
If you use Mozilla don't forget the Mozilla Public License, ;). Its rediculous to call a modern Linux system GNU because while 90% of the software is GNU, the most useful (X, Mozilla, etc) is probably something else.
Haha. Thank you for the best reply ever to one of my comments. *golf clap*.
It seemed almost like something out of Bill & Ted's excellent adventure :). Like bringing somebody of renowned ability from the past to the present and showing him what stuffs like. I'm not sure if it was just the way the article was written but it almost seemed like RMS had never used KDE before. When asked how much he used X, he responded "sometimes".
Thats crazy. I understand that you use what you know, but this is a guy who is using emacs as his windowing system. Kind of changes my opinion of him as an all knowing guru.
Note: I'm not dissing his abilities or role in history. He has done shit that most of us could never come close to surpassing. Its just amazing to see how little things have changed for him in the last 10 years.
Based on what? If the college students held up a bank, hacked the RIAA servers, or stole from a local artist, they'd still be liable for damages.
Liable for damages yes. Unfair punishment, no. Suing somebody for $90 billion is incredibly stupid, no matter what kind of demented logic you use.
Ever been sued / looked at the inital claim in a lawsuit? Any plausible method of counting or claiming gets used to be in the claimant's best interest.
This is unethical and borderlines fraud.
Which makes them somehow unable to defend their interest now? Just because someone's a child molester doesn't deprive them of their freedom of speech. (Freedom of anonymnity, sure, but not speech.)
They can say what they want but they are not above the law. If they were fair to their customers this never would have happened. Just as you said, the iPod model will probably kill off P2P which is a good thing. If the RIAA had done this earlier or properly priced cds then this blackmarket would never have shown up in the first place.
... talks about new anti-piracy efforts from the music industry, some of questionable legality.
Come on, what else do you expect from these people? They have stated that they think its alright to break into computers that contain Mp3s (fair use be damned).
They have sued college students for $90 billion and settled for $17 thousand which is still way too much.
They count 50 cd burners at faster speeds to be 420 burners for statistic purposes.
They have been proven guilty of illegal cd price fixing and screwing the consumer.
All in all, anything they do doesn't really surprise me anymore. I think the only actual thing that would shock me would be something like:
"The New York Times is reporting that the RIAA is giving away $5000 worth of free cds to every person in this country who ever purchased a cd. They also are responsible for puppies, ice cream and rainbows."
The for(;;){} crashes konqueror and needs to be manually killed.
The guy asked if you created a webpage with open source tools, would it be open source. In which I responded No
They are both examples of why it is stupid to automatically license the source of the program based on the license of the program.
You may need to take some pain killers for that knee. How about next time you read the comment, count to 10, read it again, and then think about posting.
If you use the GNU tools to create a program, does that automatically make the program created GPL?
Or for those who hate MS, if you used Visual Studio.Net does that automatically make your program property of Microsoft?
No. This would be a Really Bad Thing (tm) in my mind.
If Microsoft would just create toilet paper that had its name and logo on it, I'd buy 50 rolls.
Don't have one, don't want one. I love my Nomad MuVo. Now I'm not saying that if they were giving them away free I wouldn't take one, but I'm sure as hell not going to pay for it.
Now sit back and watch the funding come in. You too can have a space program for only a $100 investment.
They just posted it :).
Taco, you are friggin awesome :).
;).
Hes doing it on purpose to get a rise out of you all. No matter how stupid Slashdotters in general think Taco is, hes not stupid enough to post the same story twice. Yeah he does dupes but come on... do you really think he'd post the same story twice unless it was on purpose?
The best part of this is that Taco is trolling the crap out of all of you and hes probably sitting at work reading the comments and laughing his ass off.
Now a real April fools joke would be Katz posting a story that didn't have the phrase "... in these post 9/11 times..."
whereas a RedHat user might prefer auto-detection and a really nice-looking desktop (Bluecurve) in exchange for the lack of apt-get functionality.
:). URPMI kicks ass.
Thats what we have Mandrake for
I remember when Slackware jumped from I think 3 to 8 or something similar (I don't use Slackware so I'm not sure) and claimed it was just to shut people up who were wondering if Slackware was "Linux 7.0" compatible. I wonder if this is what Red Hat is doing because Mandrake is coming out with 9.1 soon. I'd really like to know if the benefits in 9 will be great enough to justify this jump. It will probably have a 2.4.20 something kernel, maybe KDE 3.1 (even though Red Hat isn't a big fan of KDE) and some other stuff. Seems to me that it should probably be 8.1. Didn't 8 just come out 4-6 months ago?
Alright fine, I voted for John Stewart. I liked his coverage of 9/11.
Haha, I would but I don't watch TV. And I don't like to vote when I feel uninformed :).
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